WEBVTT - Calling Your Shot with Temwa Chawinga & Mwanalima Adam Jereko 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.160 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're trying 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.040 to enjoy the two week break before college basketball starts, 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.080 but it's actually killing us. Are we sure it's not 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.800 November fourth yet? On today's show, we'll be talking a 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.000 breakout star and record setting goals scorer Temwachewinga and Her 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:20.840 Casey current teammate fellow forward Juanna Lima Adam Jericho about goals, nicknames, 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.320 and the growth of international soccer, plus the ties that 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:29.120 connect generations of female athletes. Fee Gets Speicty and I 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.080 Love a parade. It's all coming up right after this 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.080 welcome back slice. This Here's what you need to know 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:50.159 today in WNBA news. The hard part is over for 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.919 the New York Liberty and now it's time to celebrate. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.040 The team will have a ticker tape parade in New 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.800 York City on Thursday at ten am Eastern, beginning in 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.240 Battery Park, heading north an ending at City Hall, where 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.400 there'll be a ceremony for the team starting at noon. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.960 Fans are also welcome to join a celebration with the 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.560 team later in the day in Brooklyn at Barclays Center 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.399 at seven pm. The parade is free for all fans, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.240 but those who want to go to the championship ceremony 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.959 at City Hall and the fans celebration at Barclay Center 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:17.959 will need tickets. We'll put the link for those in 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.760 our show notes. If the Las Vegas Aces celebrations the 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.839 last few years or any indication we are in store 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.640 for some drug shenanigans. Oh and speaking of New York celebrations, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.840 quick correction from me from our post title reaction show. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.920 I said that the last time New York City enjoyed 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.920 a professional basketball championship win was the nineteen seventy in 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.560 New York Knicks. That was actually the last title one 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.360 in New York. The nineteen seventy three Knicks also won 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.160 it all. So shout out to Stephen at Golden Age 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.360 NBA on Twitter for the gentle correction. He said, quote 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.320 Walt Fraser's Knicks won the franchise's second NBA title over 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.400 Jerry West Lakers in nineteen seventy three. It's all I've got, 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.840 Please don't take it. End quote. Listen. As a Chicagoan 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.360 who enjoyed six Bowls titles and a Sky Championship during 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.640 New York's drought, I would never want to take away 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.720 what little you have. Wink wink, and thanks Steven. In 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.639 women's college hoops, the AP released its preseason All America 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.919 Team yesterday and includes three sophomores for the first time ever. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.040 Those young guns are USC's Juju Watkins, Notre Dames Hannah Hidalgo, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.680 and Texas's Madison Booker. They're joined by Yukon redshirt senior 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:27.160 Page Beckers and watkins senior teammate Kiki Erieoffin. Watkins and Beckers, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.400 who went toe to toe in the NCAA tournament's Elite 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.200 eight last season, were unanimous selections. Side note thanks to 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.520 at doctor Mattea on Twitter who let us all know 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.280 that Women's Final four tickets are on pre sale right 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.560 now at face value with the code WFF twenty twenty five. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.600 If you want a chance to potentially experience these elite 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.120 hoopers on the biggest stage, it's time to go. Secure 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.000 your seats. Link is in our episode notes hurry though 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.560 last time we clicked the link, we were in line 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.400 behind like forty six hundred people, okay, orangelices, So we 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.160 mentioned that the New York Liberty are being honored with 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.200 a ticker tape p raid. This Thursday, and in doing so, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.119 they're going to become the first New York based women's 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.080 team honored this way. But there's a long history of 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.520 other women's sports athletes who have been honored in the 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.560 Canyon of Heroes, which brings us to the latest edition 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:14.720 of Yes and. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:17.200 Now. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.799 If you're not from New York, you might be asking, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.440 what on earth is a ticker tape parade. Here's the gist. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.840 New York's first ticker tape parade was held spontaneously in 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.400 eighteen eighty six. It was during a dedication to the 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.680 statue of Liberty office workers in Wall Street through ticker tape, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.440 a type of paper ribbon used for sending telegraph messages 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.400 into the streets below, and it quickly became a tradition. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.000 Since that first parade in eighteen eighty six, New York 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.920 is honored a variety of folks, from athletes to astronauts 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.200 to politicians in this very section of downtown Manhattan that's 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.600 now known as the Canyon of Heroes. And while the 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.720 Liberty are New York's first women's team, they aren't the 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.600 first overall. Back in twenty fifteen, the US women's national 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.080 soccer team became the first women's team honored with a 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.080 ticker tape parade following their World Cup win. They were 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.040 also the first female athletes to be honored in a 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.880 solo parade in more than fifty years. And then they 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.640 got another one in twenty nineteen after winning their second 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.280 straight World Cup title. And if y'all remember, the gift 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.320 that they got was that when Meghan Rapino got up 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.640 to give a speech, the head of US Soccer called her, 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.839 Megan Rappino, I will never forget that, and he will 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.159 never be forgiven for that. Before then, gymnast Mary Lourettin 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.440 and Cheryl Miller were honored in paradeer of Olympians in 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.840 nineteen eighty four. Figure skater Carol Heist Jenkins got a 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.160 parade in nineteen sixty after winning Olympic gold. Tennis player 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.040 Althea Gibson was honored in nineteen fifty seven following her 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.440 first Wimbledon win, and Gertrude Utterly was honored in nineteen 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.839 twenty six after she became the first woman to swim 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.839 the English channel. So Yes to the New York Liberty 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:47.960 and to Gertrude Althea, Carol Cheryl and Mary Lou we 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.760 got to take a quick break. When we come back, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:58.920 We're riding the k C Current with Temla and Jericho. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.520 She's a Malawian professional footballer who plays as a forward 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.000 for the Kansas City Current of the NWSL and the 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.960 Malawi national team. In her first season in the NWSL, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.480 she's broken the single season scoring record. She's currently at 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.440 twenty goals for the year and is now the only 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.320 player in league history to score against every active NWSL 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.680 team in a single season. Her name means love, but 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.320 the rest of the NWSL has gotten no love for her. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.560 It's Temwa Scheweinga because she keeps beating all their teams 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.880 joining her. A Kenyan professional footballer who is captain of 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.000 the Kenya national team and a forward for the Kansas 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.799 City Current as well. She had twenty three goals, including 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.560 two hat tricks playing in the Turkey Super League last 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.360 year and just joined Casey in August of this year. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.480 She's got four names when you count her nickname Dogo, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.000 but she's such a star she only goes by one. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:50.799 It's Juana Lima Adam Dogo, Jericho aka Jericho. What's up Jericho? 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:51.320 What's up? 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.360 Temwa? 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.800 Congrats on a great season so far, Temwa. Before we 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.880 get into your success in the NWSA, so I want 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.720 to go back to the beginning. Your older sister, who's 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.240 also a soccer player, told the story about playing with 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.960 balls made out of plastic and paper when you were 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.120 growing up. Can you tell us how you learned how 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:12.320 to play soccer and Malawi. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.520 I learned from my sister. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.120 I was liking to go to play soccer like that, 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.280 so me I was following her every. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.359 Time when you go, joining them to train to play. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.159 After that, we go to go to the Long Way 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.120 to start playing in the league. There mea stay in 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.640 the Lulo area, but I joined her to the same 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.159 team we play. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:34.920 To give any wrong? 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.400 What did your parents think about you playing football before? 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:40.200 Didn't allow us? 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.720 Were singing a lot of countries in Africa don't allow 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.360 girls to play soccer. Was thinking it's only for boys, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.279 but my sister refused. After that were except me. I 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.040 just passed through the way my sister. She already brewed 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.640 a media. We didn't allow us, but to me, they 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.559 allow me. We're going to do the way your sister 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.119 is doing, except as to play soca. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.360 She opened the door for you by being the one 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.160 who was willing to defy them at first, but then 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.200 you both were so good. Obviously there was some magic there. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.640 And you're playing Jericho. You're the first Kenyan born player 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.920 to play in the NWSL. How did you first get 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.480 into soccer back home and was your family supportive. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:21.160 For me? 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:27.240 I started playing with my brother, my first mom, usually 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.600 playing in our village. So then when every ceremony go anywhere, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.200 we just follow out my boots. So starting from there, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.480 I go to primary school, I played to primary ball games. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:44.320 I go secondary school, Saint John's CALOLENI I start continued 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.400 then a join national team twenty fifteen inch until now. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.920 Yeah, tell us about the nickname Dogo. It means small 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:53.680 and Swahili. 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:58.040 Yeah yeah, and means small because it was shot and 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.240 they played with so they called you from to day 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:00.760 your dog. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.000 So they just called me. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.720 Dog and you're okay with that. You are short, right, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:05.600 so you can't really. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:12.360 Argue yes, and because I'm dog yeah. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.040 It's accurent. What was your goal at the beginning of 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.840 this season with the current did you have any goals? No? 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:20.240 Both. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.760 I remember when I come here in pre season, I 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.080 see the team goes good, so after I was when 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.240 interview asked me how it goes to score, I said, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.920 maybe twenty to twenty three. I trust my team may 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.240 be away if you play. So they helped me alone, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.640 like maybe Lo and Vanessa. They tell me a lot 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.400 of what to do in the pich was single players. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.520 We play in this league since long time I go, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.480 so they teach me a lot to do the pich. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.920 So you called your shot. I mean, did you know 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.080 when you said maybe twenty twenty three goals that it 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:49.720 was the record. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:51.520 No, I didn't know anything. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.480 I didn't know anything to say the truth just year 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.960 maybe you break Hey, look d I said, no, really, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.600 so I was very happy. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.280 Jericho. I heard in an interview that you said that 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.080 Tamoa has a good heart, but she's stubborn. Tell us more. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.280 Tema is that galoon. You see us like this, you 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.720 think maybe tailman. She's very quiet. But when you guys 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.520 don't see temor, Tema can do things so. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.240 That you people can't see. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.560 But I'm the one to see Tema that think she's 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.000 doing to me or to the team. But after all 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:31.840 the team will pointing at it's you and it's tim. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.360 Like pranks like she pulls pranks on you. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.400 Yes, sometimes in the changing room she just go and 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.520 see the bond and she's so when. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.840 Some people come come out. Okay. So Temana is a 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:49.400 stubb one. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.800 I like it, but you always end up taking the 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.679 fall for her. You're the one that gets the finger 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.280 pointed at you. That's that's that's sticky. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.400 They know I'm stubborn, but with tabone than me. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.679 Jericho, how have you adjusted? And you and Tamwa to 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.600 living in Kansas City. It's nice, I imagine to have 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.199 two African teammates, especially when you're so far from home. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.440 For me, I say in case seeds like home now. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.800 We see all of us from technical bends to plans. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.520 They like us so much by the way they take 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.079 us as from this place. So me and Temo just 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.320 and hell leto Africa, we just feel that home because 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.120 Kansas is like they're like our family is now. Because 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.160 we know that we know Labonta, Debinia and Venessa all 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.320 over the coaches, they know us. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.480 We feel so happy to be here. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.640 So maybe those food from Africa in mess but other 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.400 than from that, we are home. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.600 Just the food. Okay, So we got to get some 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.160 fans to send you the right places in Kansas City 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.120 to get good African food. Right, that will be that 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.840 will be said, uh Tama. There's a lot of international 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:02.560 talent on the current you have teammates from Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Canada, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.640 South Africa. How is it to play with people from 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.600 all over the world, whether that's style of play, communication, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.319 cultural differences. Has that been difficult? 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.120 Nose I Maybe to me, I lean a lot of things. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.120 It's good to be maybe different differ so you lean 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.320 a lot of things. Maybe when you go back home 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.040 when discussing for siblings or has able to tell him 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.560 the way things happened, like maybe to another countries. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.320 Yeah, yeah, it's cool. Well, Lawi not exactly known as 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.200 as a soccer power for the women or even the men. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.080 On the women's side, the team is still moving up 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.640 in the ranks. You won the COSAFA Championship last year, 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.240 which is a tournament for teams from Southern Africa, but 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.720 the nation has yet to compete even in the Africa Cup, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.520 let alone other major international tournaments like the World Cup 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.400 or the Olympics. What is it like playing for Malawi 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.880 at the international level and you have some goals to 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.960 help lead your team in bigger tournaments in the future. 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.360 Yeah, if maybe I have enough support. Was in Africa 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.400 don't take serious things for women so the way here 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.080 they do. But in countries like that, so you can 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.679 improve usself. I remember better teams they may be national teams. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.240 It was here young Italian in Africa, a little play 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.959 as we played do But if. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.000 You don't, government don't help so much like that. Just 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.920 focus with your boys, not to women's. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.360 Yeah, it feels like the success that African players are 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.680 having in the NWSL and other international leagues will certainly 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.719 help try to bring attention to the fact that there 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.120 is so much talent that could be fostered if there 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.640 were resources and money put behind it. I know when 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.360 the case current was in Washington, d C. In August, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.800 the Malawian embassy actually held the reception to honor you 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.200 your contributions to soccer, to celebrate your role as an 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.880 ambassador for the country. What does it mean to have 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.840 your home country support your career, particularly because when you started, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.480 you and your sister, it wasn't really something your parents 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:52.160 wanted you to do. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:53.800 It means a lot to us. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.520 They may be we are putting a content them up, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.920 so maybe some teams will start stating some players from Africa, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.120 so from Malawi, from Kenya, from Zambia, like that was 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.000 players in Africa, we're doing good and maybe blabb blah 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.200 banda Lesti. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.600 Yeah, a lot of players are doing good. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.800 Here in say so, I think the team the start 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.160 stating players from Africa. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.439 Yeah, Jericho, Kenya's national team has a similar history. You're 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.679 currently the captain of that squad. What are your hopes 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.719 for that program going forward? For me. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.440 Much, I say, I think they should put more impact 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.319 to the women's football to in Africa because it's different 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.600 African and these maybe us the way the girls they 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.360 treat the girls professionals, so in Africa, well like that, 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:44.680 professionals and the government should be the treats equal, whether 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.600 it's women's or men, so that we can grow football 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.959 talent so that other team they will like let us 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.600 go and search for another player, another Chawinga in Malawi. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.960 Maybe you can find good player or another goggle from Keane. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.200 So that is the football g like that? 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.600 Yeah, yeah, Jericho is there's somebody in this league, in 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.840 the NWSL that you look to other than Timoa to 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.040 say they're doing amazing things. I like how they play. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:15.360 Did you say not tie other than Timoa obviously tam wah. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:21.320 But what about anybody else for me in our team? No, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:22.120 just any. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.960 Team for me? 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:29.160 Let me say sibly inspare me a lot playing good food? 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:30.000 Yeah? 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:35.400 Okay, okay, good, good answer. Good ambassador of Kenya here 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.760 not wanting to ruffle any feathers Temoa. How about someone 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.920 from another team that you watch that you like how 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:42.480 they play? 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.280 For me to say the truth, I just like the defender. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:47.560 Noch is a good defender. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:53.320 Yeah, Naomi Germa you wish to play, so she's first? 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.880 So yeah, I love that. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:01.200 Okay. Final question? What country has better food? Kenya or Malawi? 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:06.120 Their food is just similar Gali as we called Sima 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.880 and ken So it's just same foods, same food. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.360 Okay, so no no argument there, It's just the same no, no, no. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:16.400 The same. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:18.160 Well. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.400 Congratulations on an amazing season so far. We look forward 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.840 to the playoffs and to coming to your home arena 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.040 for the championship that you might be in. If you 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.000 have something to say about it, Thank you so much 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:29.480 for the time. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:35.800 Thank you, Thanks. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.240 So much to Time one Jericho for hopping on something. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.400 Tells me I could get an actual battle going on 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.880 that whole Kenya versus Malawi food thing. I think they 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.080 kept it cute there. We got to take another break 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.200 when we return more from my nights celebrating fifty years 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:54.600 of the Women's Sports Foundation. Welcome back, y'all. As I 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.480 told you last week, I attended the incredible Women's Sports 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.320 Foundation fiftieth anniversary celebration at Brionni Wall Street in New York, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.680 and I got to witness a beautiful and powerful celebration 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.080 of just how far we've come in the decade since 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.320 Billy Jean King founded the organization. By the way, shout 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.200 out to my friend Jackie Pepper. It turns out she 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.280 was one of the main architects and editors of those 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.440 amazing videos I told you about spotlighting the news events, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.520 social issues, and major women's sports highlights from each decade. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.800 That was truly a bright spot of the night, Along 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.200 with seeing and hearing from some of the very best 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.240 of all time, among them US women's national team great 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.600 Tobin Heath. She was on hand to present the ninety 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.080 nine Ers soccer team with the twenty twenty four Wilma 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.120 Rudolph Courage Award. On the twenty fifth anniversary of their 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.200 big World Cup win. Tobin spoke of how women athletes 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.000 of all generations are sort of woven together in a way, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.160 working for more opportunity, equity, coverage, and respect, and during 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.280 her remarks she proved that those ties go way back. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.640 Calling to the stage eighty seven year old Lucinda Williams, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.000 a teammate of Wilma Rudolph's in the nineteen sixty Olympics 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.400 when they set a world record and one gold in 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.280 the four by one hundred meter relay. Quick refresher on 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.119 Wilma Rudolph in case you needed She overcame childhood pneumonia, 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.200 scarlet fever, and polio and had to wear a leg 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.240 brace until she was twelve years old when she learned 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.560 how to walk correctly again. In high school, she got 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.520 into basketball and track and field, and she went on 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.280 to win a bronze medal in the nineteen fifty six 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.720 Olympics and then became the first American woman to win 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.960 three gold medals in track and field during a single 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.000 Olympic Games in nineteen sixty. She became a role model 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.720 for black and female athletes, elevated women's track and field 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.280 in the US and went on to become a civil 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.080 rights and women's rights pioneer. So her teammate Lucinda Williams 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.639 shared a story from before that relay race. Rudolph had 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.320 already won two individual golds and really wanted to get 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.640 golds for her teammates too. Here's Lucinda. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.520 She said, I want you. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:52.280 And Barbara and Matha to get a whole merit. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.400 Just get the baton to me. And that's what we did. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:01.240 And when it was. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.320 Thank you. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.960 And when it was all said and done, we got 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:13.720 the baton tour who we broke the royal record forty 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:26.760 four point five And from this day to forever, I 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:31.680 shall ever be grateful. But before I leave this stand, 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.760 I want to say thank you to Billy Jean King. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:44.399 I want to say thank you to Alana, and I 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.040 want to say thank you to the Women's Sports Foundation, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:55.439 because without sports and athletics for girls and women, I 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.520 would not be standing on this dage tonight. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:00.000 So thank you. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:06.320 Sorry, It'sinda, it's been such a pleasure getting to know 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.879 you and Wilma sounds like my favorite number nine's just 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.639 get the ball to them in those score. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.360 To hear about your time on the US Olympic team 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.639 with Wilma Rudolph gives us such a powerful connection to 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:27.280 her and reinforces why the Foundation continues to bestow this 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:28.440 award that bears her. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.679 Name after Tobin Heath brought up the ninety nine ers. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.440 Goalkeeper Brianna Scury was one of the players on hand 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.320 to accept the award. Here's a bit of what she 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.640 had to say about the legacy of the ninety nine ers. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:44.320 Thank you so much. I'm deeply honored to be here 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.440 tonight to accept the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award on behalf 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.199 of my teammates, the ninety nine ers. It's hard to 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:56.920 believe that twenty five years have passed since that unforgettable 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.040 day at the Rose Bowl. I can still feel the 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.720 weight of that moment standing in the goal during the 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:08.639 penalty kick shootout. Even at that time, our team knew 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.640 it wasn't just a game. It was an opportunity to 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:18.160 define something far bigger than ourselves. It wasn't just about 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.720 winning a World Cup. It was about redefining the way 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:28.080 people perceive women's sports in this country. Looking back, what 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.359 fills me with the most pride isn't a gold medal, 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.080 A World Cup trophy or any of our victories on 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:41.280 the field. It's the bond we've built as a team. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:47.399 It's the sisterhood that still stands strong today, and the 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:51.199 way we used our platform to create real change for 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.080 future generations. 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.560 Our journey was never just about soccer. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:02.159 It was about breaking barriers and inspiring others to dream bigger. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:07.480 I want to express my deepest gratitude to the Women's 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:11.520 Sports Foundation for this incredible honor, and to all of 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:18.280 you here tonight, thank you for your unwavering support. Like 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:22.200 the ninety nine ers did twenty five years ago, I 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:27.040 encourage each of you to use your voice to stand 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:31.040 up for what's right and to keep paving the way 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:36.960